Ten years later
this place was abandoned in favor of the more convenient point of land
between the two rivers. Here then was builded the second and more enduring
Charles Town--Charleston, as we call it now, in South Carolina.
Colonists came fast to this Carolina lying south. Barbados sent many;
England, Scotland, and Ireland contributed a share; there came Huguenots
from France, and a certain number of Germans. In ten years after the first
settling the population numbered twelve hundred, and this presently doubled
and went on to increase. The early times were taken up with the wrestle
with the forest, with the Indians, with Spanish alarms, with incompetent
governors, with the Lords Proprietaries' Fundamental Constitutions, and
with the restrictions which English Navigation Laws imposed upon English
colonies. What grains and vegetables and tobacco they could grow, what
cattle and swine they could breed and export, preoccupied the minds of
these pioneer farmers. There were struggling for growth a rough agriculture
and a hampered trade with Barbados, Virginia, and New England -- trade
likewise with the buccaneers who swarmed in the West Indian waters.
Five hundred good reasons allowed, and had long allowed, free bootery to
flourish in American seas. Gross governmental faults, Navigation Acts, and
a hundred petty and great oppressions, general poverty, adventurousness,
lawlessness, and sympathy of mishandled folk with lawlessness, all combined
to keep Brother of the Coast, Buccaneer, and Filibuster alive, and their
ships upon all seas.
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